In the past two decades, there has been a growing number of subject areas starting to include drama in their curriculum and the field of foreign language teaching has witnessed an outstanding increase in the use of drama in different contexts. Digital drama where people act via online platforms has started to attract English teachers' attention all over the world for various reasons. The current research project entitled Digital English Theatre has been conducted with 40 English teachers and 1,215 students from different cities and provinces in Vietnam for eight months. Findings reveal that digital drama can bring numerous benefits to EFL students in Vietnam, both at high school and tertiary education, in terms of improving their linguistic competence and skills, enhacing classroom practice and others. Suggestions have been proposed by the teacher and student participants on how to overcome challenges that may take place in order to implement digital English drama successfully in Vietnam.
In the past two decades, there has been a growing number of subject areas starting to include drama in their curriculum and the field of foreign language teaching has witnessed an outstanding increase in the use of drama in different contexts. Digital drama where people act via online platforms has started to attract English teachers' attention all over the world for various reasons. The current research project entitled Digital English Theatre has been conducted with 40 English teachers and 1,215 students from different cities and provinces in Vietnam for eight months. Findings reveal that digital drama can bring numerous benefits to EFL students in Vietnam, both at high school and tertiary education, in terms of improving their linguistic competence and skills, enhacing classroom practice and others. Suggestions have been proposed by the teacher and student participants on how to overcome challenges that may take place in order to implement digital English drama successfully in Vietnam.
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